Month: February 2007

Carolina’s favorite Microsoft presenter Glen
Gordon rocked the house today in Durham at the MSDN Events Windows Vista launch
event. His half day session was full of great demos and looks at what’s new in Windows
Vista and .Net 3.0.

What to added mapped drives of network shares to the search indexes of Windows Desktop
Search in Windows Vista? See KB918996

Availability of the Windows Desktop Search: Add-in for Files on Microsoft Networks

The following file is available for download from the Microsoft Download Center:Download
the UNCFATPHInstaller.msi package now. (http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=f7e981d9-5a3b-4872-a07e-220761e27283&amp;amp;amp;DisplayLang=en)
Release Date: September 28, 2006

Thanks to those of you that have sent me comments on my CustomHostFactory post. I
wanted to post publicly question that I received from a couple of people.

While specifying a hard coded BaseAddress array works, it’s not really practice for
deploying applications in multiple environments and updating configuration changes
in the future. I set out to find a better approach to this, and found a blog
post by Aaron Skonnard here that
add a simple configuration capability by reading the following section of a web.config
file.

This week I attended the Microsoft ExpressionSession07 event held in New York City.
As somebody not from NYC, the view from the 52nd floor of 7 World Trade Center was
simply amazing!

The content of the day was equally as exciting, although I must say that while I think
Microsoft has a great story with their Expression suite of products, they need to
present a much more refined message. That being said, it was still a worthwhile event
to attend.

The day featured a keynote in the morning lead by Eric Zocher, and afternoon sessions
by presenters including Robby Ingebresen from
Identity Mine & Beau Ambur fromMetaliqq
(On Expression Blend/WPF), Microsoft’s Jeff King, and Eric Meyer (Expression Web).
The highlight for me was hearing from Robby and Beau, both individuals that are with
companies delivering WPF solutions. Both showed opportunities to productively deliver
amazing looking solutions and talking about the issues of a developer/designer world.
I think hearing from these two clarified a lot of the message that Microsoft needs
to be spreading to make Expression a success.

Coincidentally, on the same day Microsoft Expression Blend Beta 2 was released to
the web and is available here.
Check out the entire Expression suite at www.microsoft.com/expression

Electric Rain also presented their new presentation software StandOut, which makes
use of WPF. [Info here]